Clayton Guse
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Editor @wnyc + @gothamist // prev: @nydailynews. It's pronounced GOOZ-uh, damn it. Send me cool maps. [email protected]
New York City
Joined March 2012
What I learned just now is that 10% of the sun is still a lot of sun.
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This is insane. Cuomo said he does not believe any NYPD officer has hit any peaceful protester with a baton. I know several journalists who have been hit by batons this week, much less peaceful protesters.
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It's called a subway. New York figured this out 115+ years ago.
@ValaAfshar Tunnels are the solution to traffic. You can have as many levels as you want. Usable tunnel depth far exceeds tallest buildings, so would work even for New York or Beijing.
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I am reminded of a transit rally in 2019 when then-BP Eric Adams said he rode the bus every day, and held up a MetroCard as evidence. It was a 2-trip MetroCard.
I asked Mayor Adams if he would set an example and take the subway to work every day. He doesn’t answer directly but says he’s on the subway a lot and has to be realistic not idealistic.
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Cuomo demanded the subway be disinfected daily, and the MTA had to hire private contractors to get the job done. The company hired to clean Flatbush Ave station last night pays its employees like crap (~$18/hr). Six of the 12-person crew at the terminal walked off the job.
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MTA saved no money by closing overnight subway service, transit officials admit.
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“This would absolutely be an end to the New York way of life.”. MTA will propose a budget tomorrow that includes 9,000+ layoffs, 40% cuts to subway service and the elimination of entire bus routes. Agency needs $12B in COVID aid from Congress.
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NEW: Cuomo’s departure leads Port Authority staffers to demand agency halt his LaGuardia AirTrain plan.
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Thinking about that time a year or two ago when Eric Adams during a news conference claimed he rides the bus every day and held up his MetroCard but it was a two-trip.
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The MTA has a $507 million contract with the company Transcore to install all the congestion pricing readers and run the tolling system. That's a lot of expensive street furniture that won't be used if Hochul makes good on her plan to delay the tolls.
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This afternoon Schumer did what the mayor, the governor and MTA officials have for months refused to do: He rode the bus with the Daily News.
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Cuomo stepping on the mayor's lead, says on CNN that NYC schools will close. Doesn't specify when. "We will be closing schools in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Country. That’s all of downstate NY.".
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NYC dropping the vax mandate for indoor dining will likely make me more hesitant to go out to restaurants and bars. That clearly wasn’t Adams’ intent. I’m just unclear on what his intent actually was.
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MTA chairman Pat Foye says Uber rides are useful for riders who must travel to areas not served by buses or subways. Know what else is good for that? Buses.
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Build 0.14 miles of new subway tunnel in New York City.
How would you spend $500 million in a few months if you had the chance? 🤔.
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Its shabby state is well known but I can never get over how embarrassing this station is for the city.
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Cannot wrap my head around how many vulnerable people Cuomo + MTA are just throwing away in order to execute this shutdown.
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NYC subway delays spiked by 30% during the first four months of the year. MTA data shows the commuting headaches are being driven by faulty signal systems, which were due for congestion pricing-funded upgrades.
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Amtrak is fine and dandy but the train trip between NYC and Chicago takes 19 hours. It took 20 hours in 1902. There's just one daily train each way. China runs 32 trains each way between Beijing and Shanghai with trips as short as 4.5 hours. Distance is ~140 miles shorter.
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We're all on the same page re: overnight subway shutdown, right? . The governor is using disinfecting/cleaning as air cover for the wholesale removal of homeless people from the system.
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The workers were mostly immigrants who are not eligible for federal assistance or unemployment insurance. For the first 2.5 hours of their shift, they were only given a mask and a pair of gloves. They were supposed to have full coveralls and robust PPE.
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My MetroCard ran out today and the machine at a station wasn't accepting cards. I didn't have cash. A couple of cops were standing right there. I asked them if they'd give me shit if I jumped the turnstile. "Did you rob a bank? Shoot someone? Then no.".
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It took me 20 mins to get to LGA today via the M60 select bus. I asked Cuomo why anyone would use and AirTrain that takes longer and costs more. He asks me my trip would be that fast in normal traffic. I said probably, but only if there was a bus lane. "If, if, if," he says.
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At least one in every 465 NYC residents have died from COVID-19, and it's infuriating to talk with people outside of the region who clearly have no grip on what's happening here.
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This polite gentleman missed the last subway home last night. He wasn’t happy.
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This packed L train of New Yorkers is a reminder that this city collectively refuses to wear colors.
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Looks like there are a lot of holes in this public-private partnership.
@stevek8n9 Hi Steve, like previously stated, Dunkin Donuts is responsible for opening the doors in the morning at Hamilton station. NJT has spoken to the vendor multiple times. If you would like to file a formal complaint, use the link below. -TB
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At Penn Station as Hochul announces the opening of a revamped hallway on the LIRR concourse. Ceiling is dripping. MTA exec explains the area isn’t finished yet, the drip is due to condensation. They need to complete the overhaul and calibration of the HVAC system, he says.
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"The final run of a 50-year-old relic," he said. "But enough about me.".
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The entire western edge of City Hall has turned into a parking lot for unmarked NYPD cars. Some would occasionally park here under de Blasio, but not this many.
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New Yorkers are now far more likely to be killed in a car crash than a shooting. City data shows 127 people were killed in traffic crashes during the first six months of the year, compared to 82 who were fatally shot. w/ @s_nessen .
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During an "on topic" q-and-a following this ceremony, I asked MTA chairman Janno Lieber why there weren't tactile warning strips at this station. Staff shut down my question, declined to answer.
MTA now honoring two police officers as a "Hero of the Subway.". Detective Greco and Officer Macaluso who pulled a blind man to safety after he tumbled onto the tracks. "Sir, are you ok?"
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My inbox tells me the environmental group Sierra Club has endorsed NJ Congressman Josh Gottheimer, one of the region's most vocal opponents of congestion pricing in Manhattan.
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"Unfortunately we've had some people purporting to be press" when they are not, said NYPD commish Shea. The NYPD issues press passes to journalists. .
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Folks, Friday will be my last day at the Daily News. I’ll start next week as an assistant editor on the accountability desk at WNYC.
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How do you ask people to return to Manhattan offices one day and yank $15B in funding for long overdue transit improvements the next?.
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Cuomo is quoting A.J. Parkinson again. A.J. Parkinson doesn't exist. He's a fictional person Gov. Mario Cuomo invented to attribute platitudes.
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“We have the best transportation system on the globe,” Adams said. I asked if he really believes that, and if that’s true if it’s sad for the globe. “If you don’t feel it’s the best, that’s sad for you.”
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It takes five hour longer than a car. It costs the same as a flight. Friends of Twitter, I am happy to inform you that I am aboard Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited for a 19-hour ride to Chicago.
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My friend is in town from Chicago and I spent five minutes explaining to him how the subways in that city and New York go “gah gunk ga gunk ga gunk” whereas many subways in Europe go “sveeeeeooooo.”.
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Cuomo just suggested opening streets/banning cars to reduce density in NYC.
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Back in New York. Back in the newsroom. I have climbed the European transit mountaintop, and have returned with the truth. I've seen rail and bus networks that, while far from perfect, make the five boroughs look like the 19th century.
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Miranda knows: To be successful in this city, you can't waste time sitting in traffic.
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👀👀"It is no accident that chief among the voices protesting the toll are more than 100,000 public employees who have government-issued parking placards allowing them to park private cars for free in often illegal curbside spaces across the city.".
Nation's first congestion relief zone will help businesses' bottom lines: "Large and small businesses have much to gain in reduced overtime, lower fuel costs, and more predictable delivery schedules." From Carl Weisbrod & Kathryn Wylde in @NYDailyNews op-ed.
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Charging my phone in one of the fanciest outlets in all of New York, New York.
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“If you’re walking more than about 45 minutes a day, you’re getting 90% of the physical activity value of training for a marathon."
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NYPD Transit assistant chief Vincent Coogan just said the department is "looking at bail reform to see if that may be a contributing factor" in the spike in subway robberies in 2019. Bail reform went into effect at the start of 2020.
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All bars, restaurants, gyms and movie theaters will close in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, starting 8 p.m. tonight. Take out and delivery has the green light. Cuomo just made the announcement with NJ Gov. Murphy and CT. Gov. Lamont.
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Gonna get drunk by myself at this table on Friday and heckle motorists.
Local wine bar put a table in the floating parking lane between the street and the bike lane
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Find you a man who looks at you the way Byford looks at rail enthusiasts.
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"COVID permitted us to accelerate certain things, especially with respect to the bicycle.". New York City's mayor has, on the other hand, cited the pandemic as the main cause for delays in reforms to transportation programs and infrastructure.
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Hochul on Long Island today said she is the "first suburban governor [of New York] ever." . Wasn't Pataki from Peekskill? Doesn't that count as a suburb?.
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Today's cover story is the product of two months of reporting, reviews of 30 years of records and hours of interviews. We found MTA officials for years misled the public and the agency's board about delays to the long-stalled East Side Access project.
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Kind of wild (but not surprising) how much time people who holler about "liberal East Coast elites" spend at very fancy New York City restaurants.
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Read the latest on the second NYC subway derailment in six days. We obtained photos that show one of the cars that jumped the F line tracks in Coney Island landed just feet away from the edge of the elevated structure.
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“We are absolutely dependent on our public transit system,” Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler says in virtual testimony to the MTA board. He voices “enthusiastically support” for congestion pricing — from the backseat of a car.
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If @NYCMayor loves traffic jams so much he should ride the M15 bus downtown with the Daily News tomorrow morning. It's the busiest bus route in the city and it runs like crap.
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TIL the tunnel from Succession where Tom's bachelor party was held is the NYAR/CSX freight tunnel in East New York. The tube will be key to the operation of Gov. Hochul's proposed Interborough Express.
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A look inside the MTA's 400+ ghost trains that run empty on the subway each night during the 1-5 a.m. closure.
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New els are far cheaper to build than new subway tunnels, but the per-mile price discrepancy between Chicago's Red Line extension and Second Ave. subway phase 2 is mind-boggling. CTA: $2.3B for 5.3 miles ($430M/mile).MTA: $6.3B for 1.6 miles ($3.9B/mile).
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All of DNAinfo and Gothamist's pages redirect to the letter from Ricketts. It's like entire cities just had years of history stripped away.
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Just requested the MTA's latest vaccination data. The response from MTA spox @timmintonNY: "If you still had editors, they would not have approved OT for this.". We still have editors. Chastising the paper's staffing problems isn't just unprofessional -- it's punching down.
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Wow:. The MTA did a survey last month, found there were 29 homeless encampments in SUBWAY TUNNELS and another 89 in stations with more than 350 people living in them.
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All I’m saying is a Pulitzer Prize for reporting pays $15,000 and catching the 7 train smasher pays $12,500 and probably requires a lot less work.
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Big “summer of hell” vibes at Atlantic Terminal right now
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Thinking about this today: . I spent a good chunk of my morning yesterday standing right here at 14th St. behind the police line speaking with transit workers about about the derailed A train. An MTA flack asked an NYPD cop to remove me from the station. I was in a public area.
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NYC officials know where car crashes regularly harm and kill people. They know the simple solutions to make those places safe -- most require only paint, plastic and sometimes concrete. What's stopping them? Politics.
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Something I think about all the time: . In 2020 the Army Corps of Engineers and contractors dredged four feet of depth in the Hudson River to make room for the USNS Comfort hospital ship in the darkest days of the pandemic. The job was done in two weeks.
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"The decimation of local news right now, over the last 15 to 20 years, is literally bad for our health.".
Trump retweeted a poll that pitted him against Dr. Anthony Fauci. Apparently a reminder is necessary: They're SUPPOSED to be on the same team.
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It's a real goddamn disaster when your DOT Commissioner -- who's main initiative is to expand bike parking in NYC -- doesn't know how to respond to cops condemning a majority of the city's bike parking.
“I’m not going to comment on that until we find out what happened,” said DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman at an unrelated presser today when I asked him about this. DOT rep afterward wouldn’t tell me whether it’s ok to lock your bikes to one of their poles or not.
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Hochul announces Q70-SBS bus to LaGuardia will be free starting May 1.
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As of this morning I've gone four weeks without a cigarette, my longest break from nicotine since I was a child. Everyone can and should quit.
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What is stopping New York officials from implementing this street design throughout the city?. Wrong answers only.
Parisians cycling to work. Zero productivity was lost in traffic. 20.07.2020 09:04 #Paris #bikePAR #cycling #bicycles #parisenvélo #placemaking @Anne_Hidalgo @le_Parisien @lemondefr
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Looks like the salmon in Eric Adams' fridge last year was not a red herring.
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Your daily reminder that I work for a New York City tabloid:.
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The Acela between NYC and DC maxes out at 135 mph. .
big hyperloop news today: two employees of Virgin Hyperloop rode in one of the company’s pods today, traveling 100 mph down a 500-meter tube, in the first human test of the ultra-fast system
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New York can't do this because it's the greatest city in the world.
Reported a malfunctioning pedestrian signal to Taipei’s 1999 hotline and within two minutes I get a call from the transportation department to clarify a few questions and they’ve already sent someone to check it out. It’s 10 PM on a Sunday.
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I’ve been on the subway daily (minus a 14-day quarantine when MTA chairman got COVID) since the pandemic hit New York. Proper mask usage on my train cars has gone ~way~ up since Trump went public with his positive case. Was never the 95% the MTA claimed. until this week.
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I offered one of my masks to this fella on my 6 train. Told him it was the law “just for a bit longer.”. He declined, so I moved to the other end of the car. At least he’s scared away enough people to be able to put his feet up, a violation that often leads to homeless tickets.
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Reading through the transcript from the mayor’s presser this morning. He claims cops have found weed on the streets “laced with fentanyl.”. The city Health Department’s website says that’s not true.
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Mayor Adams drove to one of the largest transit deserts in Queens, announced a plan to convert a part of the Rockaway branch into a new High Line, got in a car and took off. His spox said the plan could change if the MTA comes forward with an EIS to reactivate the train line.
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Was outside Bryant Park on my way to a news conference earlier and a shirtless dude walked up to me and punched me in the face. Completely unprovoked. Didn’t care for it.
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At a rally decrying the MTA's planned service cuts, @BPEricAdams held up a MetroCard to show that he's a daily rider. It was a 2-trip MetroCard. 🤔
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Andy Byford emerges to join the final run of the R42 subway cars.
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More and more research says you should shut the hell up in enclosed spaces to contain the spread of COVID-19. Some experts think the MTA should put up 'No Talking' signs on the subway to hammer that message home.
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If the MTA is so desperate for cash, why not reopen the subway overnight and start collecting fares between 1 and 5 a.m. again?. Agency is spending the same money either way because they're running the exact same train schedules as they did before the closure, just without riders.
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The MTA board just gave its final approval for congestion pricing, realizing a longtime dream of transit advocates, who for more than 50 years have proposed charging drivers to enter Manhattan's busiest areas. @s_nessen is on the scene:.
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Driving a bus in New York City.
Name something that 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 an Olympic sport, but 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 like an Olympic sport 🤔.
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Hochul announces subway turnstiles clocked 3.5M entries for the first time since March 14, 2020.
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The city won't even take away a parking space or a bus stop without extensive public notice and input.
De Blasio made clear this morning that he has given the NYPD full discretion to shut down city parks proactively, without any notice to the public, or any communication with City Hall. That's a pretty significant power!.
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NASA has the technology to see the farthest reaches of the universe and yet the MTA still does not have the technology to see the locations of about half of New York City' subway trains.
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MTA officials want New Yorkers to pay for transit fares -- but one of the agency's top execs won't even pay for parking.
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"Gov. Cuomo was the genesis of this. Give recognition where credit is due," Hochul says in her opening remarks at the ribbon-cutting of LaGuardia's new Terminal C.
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Caught the last A train home last night on a Pullman R46 with the blue-orange seat combo. Every ad slot was empty.
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